[HoN/DotA] Let's Play~!! - Page 1284

On May 12 2011 14:44 JeeJee wrote:


wards (yellow) give vision around themselves for 6 minutes. they provide a very real but indirect benefit. ever been in a lane and then suddenly a hero you're not expecting comes out of nowhere and frags you? in the process, you lose tons of gold, experience from not being near the creeps while dead, 135g for tp (unless you're gosublade), as well as giving the other team gold, experience, and flow.
but a single 100g ward can prevent that by giving you vision so that heroes can't "come out of nowhere" because that "nowhere" will be lit up for you.

they also help you know where the rune is (random spawn every even minute in one of 2 locations), and so on, depending on their location. it's kind of like a maphack, absolutely awesome item.

your initial money is generally to augment your hero in his/her quest in the lane. as a flint, you're looking to do 2 things early on: 1) not die 2) get gold/experience. a main thing that helps with that is making your hero stronger, through the use of cheap +stat items. also, you want to stay in the lane as long as you can for reason (2), so you generally grab some regen items.

depending on personal preference, lanes, and so on, item builds could be
2x +3agi items, 2x branches, tree eaters and a potion (2*150 + 2*53 + 90 +100 = 596g)
armor ring, 4x branches, 2x tree eaters (175+4*53+2*90 = 567g)

among many others. the basic idea is they give you stats to make your hero stronger, and regen to make your hero stay in lane comfortably. you also in general want to have no empty item slots, because item slots are very precious. for example, a branch gives +1 to all stats for only 53gold, whereas the orb gives +10 to all stats for 2100! 10 branches would be 530 so you're paying a 1570gold premium just for the fact that it all fits in one slot (since obviously you can't carry 10 branches)

On May 12 2011 08:59 JeeJee wrote:


really? better than tp's or wards?

On May 12 2011 12:09 Troopi wrote:
One week ago I decided to play some HoN again. Played it very intensively since the beta but paused cus of one reason. May it be that the HoN community is the worst of every community which exists in the interwebz? The game is great and fun, but the people playing it destroy it. Everybody thinks hes the best and bad manners everywhere. People destroying good games by goin afk/feeding etc. and so on. It makes me so angry that I decided to uninstall this shit again. Its just not worth playing this game cus of the high number of dirtbags -.-